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Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 / American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson : with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature
(1833)

American ornithology. Condor. Cathartes gryphus. Plate XXII. Young male,   pp. [1]-21 ff.


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help         ontept     esides their usefulness 4'j;
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of slow flight at all times, and raise themsees  I
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th difficulty, though when surprised and
-feeding, when they are almost helples
elves by 4omiting up their superfluou
s) 1times to the great annoyance of the pursuer, and then at
once take    t.   Their sight is exceedinglyJe
'inferior in power to their sense of smelling, whicch
to discover their peculiar food at great and incred
They are dull and he  ~fond of
where t1ey may be seen perched
their wings open as if ventilating I
lin0 forward, the
When they wish
in ~flocks upon rees  .
together, sitting with
ge. They walk with . X,
ooping, the tail brwshing
Light, they are obligeil to
run a few pa,. and then contract the body vi
flight,: though slow, is protracted for a greater leng
even perhaps that of the Eagle, though more labor
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